#Scotland: local council threatens to fire, hire employees for not agreeing with policies. #Union threatens to remove their grant funding by removing #FairWork status. Council "pauses" threat.
https://www.clydebankpost.co.uk/news/24916556.wdc-threaten-fire-rehire-workers-holiday-dispute/
Australian government takeover of construction union: #union of 100,000 electrical, plumbing and postal workers disaffiliates from #ACTU due to ACTU's ties to government
https://jacobin.com/2024/10/australia-labor-albanese-construction-union
#Australia: government installed union administrator getting $600k a year from #union funds, union members "not going to accept bureaucrats bleeding the union dry and living the high life"
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/revealed-administrators-draw-massive-wages-cfmeu-account
“Fairwork”. Sfruttamento col bollino di qualità? https://umanitanova.org/fairwork-sfruttamento-col-bollino-di-qualita/ #platformworkers #mondodellavoro #lottadiclasse #sfruttamento #numero_25 #Articoli #economia #fairwork #Analisi #lavoro #riders #2024
Disappointed by the 3.75% rise in minimum wage and awards, leaving wages barely above 2018 levels in real terms. For Australia's lowest-paid, this is another tough blow. We could have done better to address the cost of living and record corporate profits.
An increase of 5% could have restored real buying power to pre-pandemic levels without significantly impacting inflation. Check out the analysis from the Centre for Work at The Australia Institute: https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/increasing-minimum-wage-would-not-drive-inflation-up-new-report
Steadily increasing the minimum wage could pave the way for a universal basic income. Let's work towards a fairer, more inclusive society.
The Fair Work Commission is currently considering a new minimum wage.
We are demanding a minimum 5% increase to help everyone keep up with the cost of living, especially our 2.9 million workers who will be directly affected by such an increase.
Critics might say that this raise is greedy, or that it could itself cause further inflation − we say that increasing the minimum wage is a bet that our citizens can live up to this higher wage.
By steadily increasing the minimum wage, we would ultimately love to see a #UniversalBasicIncome 
The analysis, 'The Irrelevance of Minimum Wages to Future Inflation' by Centre for Future Work at the Australia Institute suggests that increases to minimum wage, and accompanying increases to award rates, would not have an effect on inflation.
The analysis exmaines correlation between minmum wage increases and inflation all the way back to 1997.
On the contrary to employer concerns, it finds that there is no consistent link between minimum wage increases and inflation in the modern Australian context.
To restore the real buying power of low-paid workers to pre-pandemic trends, but not significantly affect headline inflation, the report that finds a minimum wage increase between 5-10% in the Fair Work's Annual Wage review, due in June is needed.
It's long overdue for effective wage increases to help our citizens especially with the cost of living and housing crisises.
Fusion is all for wage increases and implementing a Universal Basic Income.
The Fairwork Bangladesh rating 2023 identifies reasonable improvements in online platforms' responsiveness towards workers' needs and demands; however, thousands of workers are still excluded from the recognition of labour law, which is a major reason behind their poor facilities.
So #coles and #woolworths are claiming hardship.
Apparently #shoplifting is on the increase. (No surprise there with cheddar at $42 per kg. )
Also nothing to do with recent #FairWork legal disputes over underpayment of salaries either.
Its hard having to pay out wages and court costs to those pesky employees who want a pay packet at the end of the month.
No, the big wigs and #shareholders are doing it really hard and it makes us all weep.
Only $1,600,000,000 ($1.6 billion) profit declared this time.
Equivalent to selling 38,095,238 kilos of cheese.
I know what dads will be getting as a rare treat for #FathersDay
Could you help Eigg reach #NetZero?
The Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust is looking for a Warm Homes Manager on a three year contract. Closing date 29th May.
Please share to help us find perfect person(s) https://bit.ly/EiggWarmHomesT
PLATFORM WORKERS DESERVE FAIR WORK!
From road accidents to app deactivations, platform workers face many challenges in their day to day. They also often lack effective support channels and opportunities for collective bargaining.
Fairwork has worked with four designers from Colombia, Ghana, India, South Africa, and the UK to create a series of visuals about the Fairwork Principles. Here are the results!
https://fair.work/en/fw/engage/merch/
#fairwork #may1 #workers #rights 
"Even ignoring questions arising from the characteristics and behaviors of study recruits, the conduct of the research community itself erode substantially the credibility of these studies' conclusions."
The mechanical Turk: a short history of ‘artificial artificial intelligence’
Elizabeth Stephens
Pages 65-87 | Published online: 08 Mar 2022
" ... This, then, is the hidden secret Amazon’s open secret is designed to conceal: not that artificial intelligence remains dependent on human cognition, but that information and technology industries often rely on predatory levels of underpayment as an integral part of their business model."
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09502386.2022.2042580
Frustration and ennui among Amazon MTurk workers
"The impetus for this study comes from our desire to use the crowdsourcing platforms such as #MTurk in ways that recognize & respect the contributions (and indeed, basic humanity) of the people who complete our studies."
#CrowdSourcing #Gigwork #Fairwork #OpenAccess
#Behavior Research Methods
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-022-01955-9
"Our study has practical implications for survey researchers: IMCs should be kept short and simple. Failing longer and more complex IMCs may often be caused by lack of comprehension, rather than respondent inattention."
#EyeTracking
#Survey
#Psychology
#SocialPsychology
#SocialScience
#Fairwork
